Ross v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1931
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Grafton v. Cummings · Nichols v. Johnson · Bailey v. Ogden · Sherburne v. Shaw
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the form of the memorandum is not material, it must state the contract with reasonable certainty, so that the substance can be made to appear and be understood from the writing itself or by direct reference to some extrinsic instrument or writing without having recourse to parol proof." (p. 241.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is true that an absolutely accurate description of the property is not required, but the property should be so explicitly described that it will be susceptible of identification by reference to other writings and facts which may be shown to the court. If the designation is so definite that the description given in the memorandum can, with the aid of extrinsic evidence, be applied to the exact property intended to be sold, it is enough.” (Hollis v. Burgess, 37 Kan. 494 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. King v. Stephens
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.